List on ebay в корорбке/ ORLЙANS TOUR PAYS DE LOIRE FRANCE 1710ca VALK ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP OF PAYS DE LOIRE FRANCE Condition: --not specified Ended: Oct 31, 2023 22:23:37 PDT Winning bid: US $49.01 ORLЙANS TOUR PAYS DE LOIRE FRANCE 1710ca VALK ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP Description Aurelianensis Prжfectura Generalis; in qua partiliter discriminati Superiores ducatus Cenomanensis, regio Perticensis, Belsia, pars tractus Vastinii, ducatusque Nevernensis: intermedii ducatus Andegavensis, Turonensis, Vindociensis, agrique Blesensis, et Aurelianensis, ac deniqss Inferiores, Pictavia, et Bituriensis, Angolismensisq' Ducatus, una cum Tractu Alentensi: quorum Littoribus prжtenduntur Insulж tres, Nigri monasterii, et Grandior Regis, alias Sti. Martini, ut et Uliarii sive Oloriorum. Curis et Molimine Ger.i et Leo.i Valck C. Pr. Description: Striking and highly dzetailed fine unusual 1710 approx. Gerard & Leonard Valk's copper engraved map of the regions Pays de la Loire in the west of France. On the left the Atlantic coast from Saint-Nazaire to the Оle d'Olйron. With Nantes, Tours, Blois to Orlйans in the centre, in the northeast Troyes. The map is filled with information including fortified cities, villages, towns, rivers, lakes, bays, islands and reliefs. Title , topographic key & mileage scales to the top along netline. Date: 1710 approx. ( undated ) Dimension: Map size approx.: cm 62,1 x 53,6 Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains and wiremarks. Map old original colored. Wide top and lower margins. Small lateral margins. Small foxing and browning. Tear at the lower side along central folding. Map folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images. Mapmakers: The Valk Family Gerard Valk (Valck) (1652-1726) was Amsterdam's publisher, engraver, art seller, and globemaker. He was trained under Abraham Bloteling, later becoming his assistant. The two moved to London, where Valk worked with various map and print sellers. He married Abraham's sister, Maria Bloteling, in London around 1673; in that city, his son and successor, Leonard, was born in 1675. Not long after, Bloteling and Valk returned to Amsterdam, where Gerard Valk was registered as a burgher on December 8, 1679. Around 1680 he began working with the German engraver Petrus Schenk as an engraver, publisher, map and print-sellers. They acquired the plates for the Janssonius Novus Atlas and Sanson's maps. Although they never shared premises, they worked closely together in the publications of editions of these works. Valk and his son Leonard are best known for their globemaking. In addition to globes newly compiled from the latest geographical and astronomical information, the Valk's published theoretical works on astronomy and globes. In 1710, the family tie between the two partners, Valk and Schenk, became even closer when Gerard's son Leonard Valk (1675-1746) married Maria Schenk (1688-1770), Petrus' daughter. After the death of Gerard in 1726, the business continued in the hands of his son Leonard and Gerard's widow Maria until she died in 1729, and then by Leonard until he died in 1746.